Grateful Dead Live at Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Hall on 1979-12-10
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- Publication date
- 1979-12-10 ( check for other copies)
- Topics
- Audience, Mason B. Taylor
- Collection
- GratefulDead
- Band/Artist
- Grateful Dead
- Resource
- DeadLists Project
- Item Size
- 1.3G
Cold Rain & Snow-> Greatest Story Ever Told, Peggy-O, Mama Tried-> Mexicali Blues, Tennessee Jed, Dancin' In The Streets-> Franklin's Tower-> Looks Like Rain-> Deal
Set 2
Scarlet Begonias-> Fire On The Mountain, Easy To Love You-> Let It Grow-> He's Gone-> Truckin'-> Drums-> Wharf Rat-> Johnny B. Goode, E: U.S. Blues
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Song Title | Versions | Compilations | Covers |
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Tuning | |||
Cold Rain And Snow -> | |||
Greatest Story Ever Told | |||
Peggy-O | |||
Mama Tried -> | |||
Mexicali Blues | |||
Tennessee Jed | |||
Dancing In The Street -> | |||
/Franklin's Tower -> | |||
Looks Like Rain -> | |||
Deal | |||
Scarlet Begonias -> | |||
Fire On /The Mountain | |||
Easy To Love You -> | |||
Let It Grow -> | |||
He's Go/ne -> | |||
Truckin' -> | |||
D/rums -> | |||
Space -> | |||
Wharf Rat -> | |||
Johnny B. Goode | |||
Tuning | |||
U.S. Blues |
Notes
"Mason B. Taylor was a taper from Chicago that recorded concerts by many bands in the Chicagoland area and on Dead tours. He used a Nakamichi 550 with Nakamichi 300 mics with shotgun capsules for most of his earlier recordings. In later years he used Sony D-5 and Sony D-3 cassette recorders with Nakamichi 300 mics.
Mason captured spectacular musical moments and loved to share them with his closest friends. In honor of Mason and all the love he put into his recordings we are now able to share these moments with those who can appreciate them most.
As the shows get uploaded we would love for you to share your stories about the epic times the music evokes so we can all dial back into that moment when the magic was happening.
Thanks to Mason’s family and his Chicago and Cleveland friends for opening up Mason’s Jar…"
- Addeddate
- 2014-05-19 01:09:02
- Identifier
- gd1979-12-10.128746.naks.mason.flac16
- Location
- Kansas City, KS
- Run time
- 154:26.66
- Taped by
- Mason B. Taylor
- Type
- sound
- Year
- 1979
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Reviews
(3)
Subject: Classic 79 Dead!
Saw my first show in Spring 79 as a wee junior high schooler! What a great year and a great turn for the Boys upon enlisting Brent! And Jerry and Bob still sing beautifully! Groovy days
Subject: Another view of the Mason Taylor story.
Mason Taylor liked sharing with his closest friends. True and here's the kicker. He wanted nothing to do with the mass distribution of his stuff. How does a guy so prolific fly under the radar for so long? Because he never bought into the concept of sharing it with everybody and or anybody. A few of us out there have as much of the archive on personal hard drives. All those years Mason made tapes and no folders identifying him until after he died. He wanted the tapes gone after he died. They were actually rescued from a garbage bin. So in actuality his wishes for what happened to his tapes were ignored. At least by his family. And it was fortuitous for us someboy found out about them and rescued them. All those people I saw taping at concerts down through the years, and so many familiar names and so few actually on those drives. I understand where Mason was coming from. Real tapers aren't interested in being known for what they were doing. One had to send your name into the GD Tix Office for show tickets. Everybody knowing you're a taper could affect the tickets you got.
To sum it up, Mason wasn't looking for attention, did everything he could to avoid attention and his wishes were ignored. I feel for him, but not for the reasons most of you are. And very few of his GD tapes were best of breed either.
Subject: cji-ka-go, cji-ka-go..(on state street that grateful dead street) da daa da daa da daaaaaa
My companion had shiny long hair, tie-dye and jeans. I was wearing this cool-oh huge hand-painted Mexican circle dancing skirt from the 40's that my grandma Dorothy gave me. It is one size fits me always, and being made of hemp, works equally well as a table cloth or tarp for a lean-to. The front has a pretty mama and kids. The back has this dude slumped against a cactus, with a major spleef in his hand, complete with smoke wafting up and away into the blue, blue sky and he has that perfectly content smile on his face.
So, the cabbie sizes up and we size up him. We give him the street address, but he's all I know, I know. Buzz cut gunmetal gray hair, florid pink skin. No small talk for him. He was actually hostile! He dropped us off way far away, and my companion asked him to get us closer, and he said its not safe because too many people. So I said, here's fine. My companion paid him. I tipped him like a $10 bill and asked him why he was so uptight. He said he remembered people like us at the convention.
So OK, as a kid I watched the national Democratic convention on TV, but I didn't get that was the convention he was talking about. I thought he meant some kind of deadhead convention.
We took public transit the rest of the week.
And tonight's show is, of course, wonderful!!
Enjoy!
And Big Thanks to Chicagolad's very own Mason Jar Project--you are so generous with your time and expertise. thank you, thank you, thank you.
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